Happy New Year, everyone!

I had been meaning to bring this blog back to life, but decided to just wait for the new year to do so and now that we’re already a few days into 2025, I’m back and will be sharing my reading goals for this year.

Despite my inactivity here, I read quite a lot in 2024 with 157 books in total and it was my best reading year yet. And though I still intend to read plenty of books in 2025, I also plan on getting back into fantasy and catch up on my backlist or fantasy TBR so I’m already anticipating a slight decrease in the number of books by the end of this year because it takes quite some time for me to finish high fantasy books and series! I did set my Goodreads and Fable reading goal to 80 books compared to last year’s 70 though, so that’s still a lot, but I’m positive and that I can complete that by the end of the year.

Some of my reading goals for 2025 are:

• Read more Japanese literature
• Read more literary fiction
• Read more local (Filipiniana) books
• Put a dent on my fantasy TBR
• Catch up with my comics/manga TBR
• Finish reading the Farseer trilogy
• Finish reading the Trials of Apollo series
• Finish reading the Chestnut Springs series
• Be smarter when it comes to buying books:
  • Only buy books from a series I already have/currently reading
  • Only buy book 1 of a new series once I’ve finished reading a series
  • For standalone books, I can buy some that I strongly feel like I will enjoy (e.g., books from a favorite author), otherwise, just read them via kindle
  • Don’t give in too much on sales

*I still won’t post monthly hopefuls or TBRs though because as a mood reader, I really suck at following them. Haha

Again, happy new year, everyone!